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8/. See full paper in:.📄 Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru.🔗

7/. 🎯 Policy takeaway:.Educational inequality is also about aspirations. Supporting access means more than opening doors—it means making sure students can see someone like them walk through.

6/. But barriers remain. More low-SES students apply—but they’re still less likely to be admitted. → Academic gaps and indirect costs (e.g. distance, transportation) continue to constrain access.

5/. Effects are strongest when:.• Older student had strong academic results.• COAR school is geographically close.• School of origin is small.→ All consistent with social learning.Context makes it unlikely learning specific details about admissions process is driving results.

4/. The effects on demand are large:.✅ +17% more applications the following year.🧑‍🎓 Driven by low-SES students. We find evidence that older schoolmates serve as a source of information and role models—especially for disadvantaged students.

3/. Can the experience of an older schoolmate change that?. We use a regression discontinuity design:.Compare schools where the top student just made it into COAR vs. just missed. → Isolated variation in exposure to a successful peer.→ Measure effects on the next cohort

2/. We study COAR, a network of highly selective public boarding schools in Peru:. 🏫 Free, full-time, residential.🎯 Targeted at top students from public schools. Yet: low-SES students apply less, even when eligible.

1/. Elite schools aim to level the playing field for high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds. But information gaps and low perceived fit still limit applications—even when these schools are free.

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